Mouth Cancer Awareness in General Population: Results from Grampian Region of Scotland, United Kingdom by Michal M. Kawecki, Iva R. Nedeva, Jonathan Iloya, Tatiana V. Macfarlane

“…Objectives: The purpose of this project was to determine the level of mouth cancer awareness and to investigate the associated factors in a United Kingdom (UK) general population sample. Material and Methods: Adult Dental Health Survey (2010) was conducted in a sample of 3,353 adult residents in the Grampian region of the UK (adjusted participation rate 58%). …”
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Relations Between Parental Emotion Talk and Preschoolers’ Emotion Expressions in Low-Income Chinese American and Mexican American Families by Megan Chan, Michelle Taw, Nancy Eisenberg, Qing Zhou

“…<b>Methods</b>: In a sample of 86 children (age range = 38 to 70 months, 62% girls) from low-income immigrant families (Mexican Americans/MA = 43 and Chinese Americans/CA = 43), the observed children’s emotion expressions and emotion-related behaviors were coded based on a frustration-eliciting task. …”
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Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis in Periodontitis in Adolescents and Young Adults by B. Jabri, M. Iken, S. Ait- Ou-amar, S. Rida, A. Bouziane, O. k. Ennibi

“…A pool of plaque sample was taken. Samples were cultured on Sabouraud Chloramphenicol medium at 37°C for 24–48 hours and then identified by the Vitek 2 YST system. …”
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Decomposition analysis of disparities in infant mortality rates across 27 US states by Benjamin Sosnaud

“…RESULTS: In 7 of the 18 sample states with IMRs higher than the rest of the United States, led by Louisiana, South Carolina, and Georgia, more than 50% of this disparity can be attributed to the proportion of births from high-risk sociodemographic groups. …”
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Early versus Late Tracheostomy for Intubated Patients in Intensive Care Units by Shkar Nazar Mohammed, Saleh Ahmed Tawfique, Hiwa Asaad Abdulkareem

“…However, there is controversy regarding the effects of timing of tracheostomy in those patients, which was the purpose of this prospective study. Methods:A-sample of 48 cases were selected, based on timing of tracheostomy they were assigned into 2 groups: early trache ostomy group; included 24 patients that were intubated for less than 10 days and within this 10 days tracheostomies were performed, and late tracheostomy group in which patients remained on endotracheal intubation for more than 10 days and then tracheostomies were performed. …”
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A Meta-analysis of improvement of the nutritional status with whey protein in patients with maintainable hemodialysis by ZHANG Cheng-hua, SHENG Mei-xiao

“…Objective To evaluate the efficacy of whey protein in improving nutritional status in maintenance hemodialysis(MHD)patients.Methods We systematically searched the PubMed,Web of science,Cochrane Library,Embase,CNKI,CBM,VIP and Wan-Fang databases from their inception to November 10 th,2019.Two researchers screened and extracted the literature independently based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria.The Cochrane Risk Assessment Tool was used to evaluate risk of bias for the included literature.Finally,we used Review Manager 5.3 software to conduct the meta-analysis.Results A total of 1029 papers as related literature were available in our search,and 9 ones of the papers were included finally,involving a total of 525 patients.The Meta-analysis showed that,compared with the control group,whey protein could raise the serum albumin level of the patients [OR=0.22,95%CI(0.07,0.37),P=0.004],improve serum creatinine levels [OR=-0.45,95%CI(-0.89,-0.01),P=0.03],and reduce the phosphorus load [OR=-0.45,95%CI(-0.89,-0.01),P<0.01].What’s more,in subgroup analysis,when whey protein was used as an additional supplement it seemed to be more significantly improve serum albumin(P<0.01),with statistically significant difference between the subgroups.Conclusions Whey protein can improve the nutritional level of MHD patients.However,due to fewer study samples included and the lack of clinical long-term indicators,the conclusion is still to validate further by more long-term,high-quality,large-sample,multicenter,randomized double-blind clinical trials.…”
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Potential-based thermodynamics with consistent conservative cascade transport for implicit large eddy simulation: PTerodaC³TILES version 1.0 by J. Thuburn

“…Semi-implicit semi-Lagrangian numerical methods are used; such methods are unusual for simulating boundary layer and convective flows and are more typical of global atmospheric models. …”
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Presenting a Statistical Model of Fatigue Prediction for the Effect of Loading Frequency on Reflective Cracks Propagation on Asphalt Layers Improved by Geosynthetics by Saeid Asadi, Gholamali Shafabakhsh

“…However, some of these methods have been more effective in preventing the initiation of reflective cracks and reducing the severity of their damage in restored pavements. …”
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Moderate degradation does not preclude microarray analysis of small amounts of RNA by Oliver Schoor, Toni Weinschenk, Jörg Hennenlotter, Stefan Corvin, Arnulf Stenzl, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Stefan Stevanović

“…Gene expression analysis by microarrays using small amounts of RNA is becoming more and more popular against the background of advances and increasing importance of small-sample acquisition methods like laser microdissection techniques. …”
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INNOVATIVE CHANGES IN HISTORICAL TOURISM OBJECTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL TOOLS by Ivana ŠAFFOVÁ, Daniela MATUŠÍKOVÁ, Tünde Dzurov VARGOVÁ

“…Its results are described in more detail using several methods of advanced statistics such as Kruskal-Wallis test, Spearman's correlation coefficient, normality test and others. …”
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Autonomy-supportive physical education, harmonious passion, and mental health in adolescent girls during COVID-19 by Solmaz Babaei, Masoumeh Parvaneh

“…Results: The results showed that the experimental group had more harmonious passion (p < 0.05). They also reported more physical activity, less loneliness, and greater mental vitality (p < 0.05). …”
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The governing role of board gender diversity on conditional accounting conservatism and executive remuneration: performance-based versus equity-based remunerations by Reem Essam Bedeir

“…Overall, contrary to notions of opportunistic behavior of executives, the results find that boards achieve more level of governance with more women representation.…”
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Uncovering exposome-related diseases through the pathologic metallome: a novel approach for clinical populations by Riccardo Leinardi, François Huaux

“…A paradigm shift is underway, moving toward a more integrated understanding of combined metal effects through the interdisciplinary study of the metallome, the distribution of metal ions and metalloids within a biological system. …”
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Nurse’s leadership and participation in hospital governance: scoping review by Magda Guerra, Élvio Jesus, Beatriz Araújo

“…The sample corpus consisted of 10 articles that met methodological conditions. …”
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What Explains the Varying Degree of Export? Internal or External Factors by Tianchen Li

“…Objective: The objective of this article is to determine and analyse export conditions by combining the entrepreneurial resource perspective and formal institutional approach. Research Design & Methods: Drawing on a representative sample of global nascent entrepreneurs, cross-level (random-effects) moderation analysis is applied to explicate the influence of a country’s formal institution on the relationship between entrepreneurial resource-based determinants and the degree of export, and this method enables the study of country-level slopes. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Characteristics of the Social Situation of Development Primary School Children Studying in Inclusive Classes by Judina T.A.

“…In addition, children with disabilities have a low level of self-esteem more often than their peers without disabilities. …”
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MAPPING AQUATIC VEGETATION OF THE RAKAMAZTISZANAGYFALUI NAGY-MOROTVA USING HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGERY by PÉTER BURAI, GABRIELLA ZSUZSANNA LÖVEI, CSABA LÉNÁRT, ILDIKÓ NAGY, PÉTER ENYEDI

“…Rapid development in remote sensing technologies provides more and more reliable methods for environmental assessment. …”
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Study of some parameters of humoral immunity in asthmatic elderly patients by Marisela Pérez Pacareu, Alina González Paredes, Rafael Zamora Puerta, Dayamí García Torres

“…<br /><strong>Objective:</strong> To analyse the characteristics of immunoglobulin G, A and M quantification in a sample of elderly patients. <strong><br />Methods:</strong> Descriptive study of two case series: a group of 60 years-old asthmatic patients and a group of patients younger than 60 years. …”
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How to score respondents? A Monte Carlo study comparing three different procedures by Víthor Rosa Franco, Marie Wiberg

“…ABSTRACT This study aimed to empirically compare the effectiveness of Likert, Thurstonian, and Expected a Posteriori (EAP) scoring methods. A computational simulation of the two-parameter logistic model was employed under various conditions, including different sample sizes, number of items, scale levels, item extremeness, and varying discriminations. …”
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Chronic heart failure in out-patient practice: aetiology issues by S. M. Bogdanova, N. V. Makarova

“…Isolated AH, as an aetiological CHF factor, was more frequent in women than in men (33,9% vs. 22,2%). …”
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